Mariana Marcela Briski (14 September 1965 – 14 August 2014) was an

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actress, director, producer, screenwriter, author, and professor. She was known for her roles in '' It's Not You, It's Me'' (2004), '' The Wind'' (2005), and '' Salsipuedes'' (2011). Briski was also known for her television roles in '' Primicias'' and ''

Poné a Francella Guillermo Héctor Francella (born 14 February 1955) is an Argentine actor and comedian. Besides a long history of working as a television leading man, he also has a varied theatrical and film career. Francella is widely regarded by experts and cr ...

''. Briski was born in

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. She was married to Hernán Ventura from 1988 until her death in 2014; the couple had one son, Pedro. In October 2004, Briski was diagnosed with

breast cancer Breast cancer is a cancer that develops from breast tissue. Signs of breast cancer may include a Breast lump, lump in the breast, a change in breast shape, dimpling of the skin, Milk-rejection sign, milk rejection, fluid coming from the nipp ...

. By 2012, it had

metastasis Metastasis is a pathogenic agent's spreading from an initial or primary site to a different or secondary site within the host's body; the term is typically used when referring to metastasis by a cancerous tumor. The newly pathological sites, ...

ed into her lungs. In 2014, Briski died from

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and breast cancer in

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, Argentina, aged 48.

Cancer

In October 2004, following a routine

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,«Mariana Briski»
, artículo de Silvina Ocampo en el sitio web de la revista ''Para Ti'' (Buenos Aires), de agosto de 2005. Consultado el 20 de julio de 2013. she was diagnosed with

. She had a history of breast cancer in her family: her grandmother suffered and healed but died many years later of natural causes. Mariana Briski had to endure two surgeries,

chemotherapy Chemotherapy (often abbreviated chemo, sometimes CTX and CTx) is the type of cancer treatment that uses one or more anti-cancer drugs (list of chemotherapeutic agents, chemotherapeutic agents or alkylating agents) in a standard chemotherapy re ...

and

radiotherapy Radiation therapy or radiotherapy (RT, RTx, or XRT) is a treatment using ionizing radiation, generally provided as part of cancer therapy to either kill or control the growth of malignant cells. It is normally delivered by a linear particle ...

. In early 2011 she was diagnosed with

metastases Metastasis is a pathogenic agent's spreading from an initial or primary site to a different or secondary site within the host's body; the term is typically used when referring to metastasis by a cancerous tumor. The newly pathological sites, ...

pulmonary large. In April 2011 she went to Dr. Crescenti to help chemotherapy to which she was subjected.

Death

Mariana Briski died at the age 48 on Thursday, August 14, 2014 at 3:30 pm after a long struggle with breast cancer.Actress Mariana Briski dies at 48
/ref> She spent a week hospitalized in the Alexander Fleming Institute in the neighborhood of

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where her condition aggravated and ended with the death of the famous actress. She was buried in the Jardín de Paz of Pilar on Friday, August 15 at 1 pm.

Filmography

;Schauspielerin * 1985: Tage im Juni ''(Los días de junio)'' * 1992: De la cabeza (TV-Serie, 19 episodes) * 1993: Cha cha cha (TV-Serie, 22 episodes) * 1997: Mob-Cops – Unerbittlich, unbestechlich ''(Comodines)'' * 1998: Los Rodríguez (TV-Serie, 11 episodes) * 2000: Primicias (TV-Serie, 37 episodes) * 2000: Chabonas (TV-Serie, 3 episodes) * 2001: Poné a Francella (TV-Serie, 39 episodes) * 2002: ¿Sabés nadar? * 2003: Resistiré (TV-Serie, 3 episodes) * 2004: El favor * 2004: No sos vos, soy yo * 2004: Los secretos de papá (TV-Serie, 151 episodes) * 2005: El viento * 2006: Chiquititas sin fin (TV-Serie, 68 episodes) * 2008: Motivos para no enamorarse * 2011: El dedo * 2011: Salsipuedes

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